Charges Dropped Against #KillAllWhiteMen Tweeter Bahar Mustafa
4th November 2015
British police have dropped all charges against Bahar Mustafa, 28, the student welfare and diversity officer arrested last month for tweets that included the hashtag #KillAllWhiteMen.
Of course, if she had been a white man, she’d still be in jail.
“The decision first to prosecute and then to climb down so soon afterwards, made by the Crown Prosecution Service headquarters, calls into question their ability to make sensible judgments on delicate issues,” Mustafa’s lawyer, Mike Schwarz, told the Guardian. It should also call into question the wisdom of laws against so-called “hate speech,” an inherently subjective category.